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Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.

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So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

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Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.

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In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.

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Mona Simpson

Mona Simpson

Born: June 14, 1957 (age 67)
Bio: Mona Elizabeth Simpson is an American novelist. She has written six novels and is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature at Bard College.
Known for:
  1. Anywhere but Here (1986)
  2. A regular guy (1996)
  3. My Hollywood (2010)
  4. The Lost Father (1993)
  5. Off Keck Road (2000)

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